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Okay, I just finished the first volume and I felt like nothing much was different from the anime except for expanded dialog, the lack of need to change references to Starbucks and McDonald's, and Kuroneko actually talking to Kirino by the end of the volume.

The volume seems to be dwelling on the topic of "public image". We get Kirino, who makes an income in her gorgeous looks, and Kyousuke, who sacrificed his don't-give-a-damn image to help his younger sister for the first time. There's also Saori, who doesn't mind being called embarrassing names by her new friends.

For some reason, the volume reminds me of the struggle between the Takanashi siblings in Chuunibyou—you get Touka who has been struggling to raise Rikka, and her way to give her a good life is to drag her away from her chuunibyou. Eventually, Touka realizes that having chuunibyou (or being an otaku in Kirino's case), isn't that bad.

As I said, it's not that special at this point since it has just begun. Hopefully, when the differences between the LNs and the anime become more striking is the time that the story becomes more engaging.

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Okay, I just finished the first volume and I felt like nothing much was different from the anime except for expanded dialog, the lack of need to change references to Starbucks and McDonald's, and Kuroneko actually talking to Kirino by the end of the volume.

The volume seems to be dwelling on the topic of "public image". We get Kirino, who makes an income in her gorgeous looks, and Kyousuke, who sacrificed his don't-give-a-damn image to help his younger sister for the first time. There's also Saori, who doesn't mind being called embarrassing names by her new friends.

For some reason, the volume reminds me of the struggle between the Takanashi siblings in Chuunibyou—you get Touka who has been struggling to raise Rikka, and her way to give her a good life is to drag her away from her chuunibyou. Eventually, Touka realizes that having chuunibyou (or being an otaku in Kirino's case), isn't that bad.

As I said, it's not that special at this point since it has just begun. Hopefully, when the differences between the LNs and the anime become more striking is the time that the story becomes more engaging.

In my opinions, the different between volume 1 and anime was mostly about Kyousuke's part. For example, while he didn't really want to involve with Kirino, he is still care for her enough to still involve himself until he is sure Kirino success making otaku friend (at the end of chapter 2). This showed that despite his denseness, he is still a brother at heart.

I'm currently reading through the first two chapters of Volume 2, and well, Kyousuke's life during those chapters are rather unfortunate. First, he gets into an understanding with Kirino for Saori's sudden package, and second, he ends up hurting Manami's feelings due to a bad combination of factors. Here, Kirino appears to seek solace in him (making him play Siscali) and has tried helping in his problem with Manami.

Chapter 2 reveals some stuff about Manami's relationship with Kyousuke. Kyousuke's pretty much a dick to Manami, calling her names to the point of crying. :/ Fortunately to Kyousuke, all of Manami's attempts to avoid him were just a series of misunderstandings.

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Crunchyroll here refers to the yaoran entry and speaks of a planned follow up to the after story. Is that correct?

I think they sort of mixed some facts. There's a follow-up to the artbook coming, but I don't think it said that the next artbook would have a further after story. Rather, the After Story is in this artbook. (It may be that the next artbook has another piece, but I don't think they said yet.)

Someone translated the Oreimo After Story that came with the art book, it's up on BT.

Definitely seems that...

Spoiler:

Kirino and Kyousuke's relationship is still going on months later after the last volume. Also they seem to be hinting that Ero-Manga Sensei takes place in the same world around this time? I dunno, what do you guys think?

If there's a followup in the next art book, definitely looking forward to it.

First, a big thanks to Fragment Traveler for his very fast translation work.

About the relationship....

Spoiler for After story:

It's definitely clear now, their relationship is still ongoing after volume 12. Just look at the conversation between Kuroneko and Kirino and also kyousuke talking about him getting a driver license and going for a drive, this hints to what he said in Volume 12.

The story also refers to the wedding figure of Kirino:

Spoiler for Wedding:

Quote:

''“More importantly! That wedding dress figure I bought just now! WOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW! Just what is this! It's super cute, you know! This box is way out of this world! So much detailed work on every nook and cranny too! Ku ~~~~ the makers really know what they're doing~! I guess I really should buy one more for preserving! Slurp!”

…...This imouto. She really hasn't changed much at all, huh. ''

ohh kirino

There are some minor spoilers about Ero manga Sensei in this story. Beware if you haven't read volume 2 yet of Ero manga sensei. It's funny how Fushimi connected Ero manga sensei with Oreimo in this short story.

Someone translated the Oreimo After Story that came with the art book, it's up on BT.

Definitely seems that...

Spoiler:

Kirino and Kyousuke's relationship is still going on months later after the last volume. Also they seem to be hinting that Ero-Manga Sensei takes place in the same world around this time? I dunno, what do you guys think?

If there's a followup in the next art book, definitely looking forward to it.

Why not? Actually, what stop the author from making a crossover between Oreimo and ANY other story Heck, a meeting between Sagiri and Kirino would be hilarious